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People: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Topic: Lombards, War of the
Location: Otranto Puglia Italy

Lombards, War of the

Years: 1228 - 1243

The War of the Lombards (1228–1243) is a civil war in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Cyprus between the "Lombards" (also called the imperialists), the representatives of the Emperor Frederick II, largely from Lombardy, and the native aristocracy, led first by the Ibelins and then by the Montforts.

The war is provoked by Frederick's attempt to control the regency for his young son, Conrad II of Jerusalem.

Frederick and Conrad represent the Hohenstaufen dynasty.

"If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development."

— Aristotle, Politics, Book I, Chapter 2